For Those Who Rallied For Liberty Today
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Author - Bob Cesca
This Is How You Do A Bailout
Outstanding news on the auto industry bailout: Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), in a Saturday afternoon announcement, says the House plan would require existing funds from the $700 billion financial...
The Obama Mosaic
This is pretty great.
Saturday Thread
Open thread. Lieberman bashing welcome.
Newsweek's Special Obama Issue
Photo: Charles Ommanney / Getty for Newsweek Capturing a photo of Axelrod smiling like this is like capturing a photo of a sasquatch. Rare and out of focus. More excellent photos from the campaign in...
Sarah the Panda
Digby dday on O'Reilly's panda bear: It's really not that he got the name of the animal wrong. It's that he was so sure of it, and immediately when told he was wrong, he clung to it. That's not only...
Chapter 11
There's a push to simply allow the automakers to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. On the surface, that seems to make sense, but the problem here is that we still lose those jobs, and I'm...
The First YouTube Fireside Chat
Transcript after the jump...
Morning Awesome
MST3K Saturday! "Aquatic Wizards" Oh, and hey! One year ago today, the Morning Awesome was born. That means we've done 365 of these, and I'm proud to report that I haven't missed a day. Here's the...
Prime Time Thread
Open thread for documenting your Friday night cable news hackery and sitting here in these chairs that I’m going to be proposing. Tonight! The last Bill Maher of the year. Boooo!
Speaking of Drama…
I bet attention-whore Joe Lieberman is loving this extra time in the spotlight. I am Lieberman! I'm very important! Everyone is fighting over little old me!? Ehhhhxcellent! Seriously, if there's...
Shades of Lincoln
The Nico: President-elect Barack Obama offered Sen. Hillary Clinton the position of Secretary of State during their meeting Thursday in Chicago, according to two senior Democratic officials. She...
Fancy Pageant Walkin'
I just rewatched highlights (by Jed below) from Palin's whatever-the-hell-that-was yesterday. It's so obvious that she believes the hype. She seriously thinks she can get to the White House by...
Afternoon Awesome
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Crazy Talk
An e-mail response to my Huffington Post column this week: If you will, a quick anecdote that proves your point about the Far Right behavior. Some 20 years ago I was going through Chaplaincy training...
Nixonland
During the primaries, Chuck Todd observed that in states with higher black populations, white voter support for then-Senator Obama was significantly lower. And this turned out to be accurate in the...
Yep. It's Clinton.
This all but confirms it: "I'm not going to speculate or address anything about the president-elect's incoming administration, and I'm going to respect his process," she said. But I wonder where the...
Keep On Drivin' In The Free World
by Lee Stranahan On a happier note, I want to highlight a very smart and tech savvy piece by one of my favorite artists, Neil Young - How To Save A Major Automobile Company is worth it to see the...
Give Me Something To Break
We're all scraping by just to keep up with our monthly bills, and AIG is doing this with our bailout cash: American International Group plans to pay out $503 million in deferred compensation to some...
The Weekly Presidential YouTube Address
New internet traditions to be aware of: Today, President-elect Obama will record the weekly Democratic address not just on radio but also on video -- a first. The address, typically four minutes...